Exposition Internationale
des Arts et des Techniques Paris 1937
  
promotional bookmark published by the French
Government for distribution in the USA
thick card 180 x 46 mm
          
'In 1937, the Queen City of Expositions held court
for the last time. World War One was scarcely two
decades past. The most catastrophic war in the
history of the human race loomed less than two
years away. Paris, France, Europe, and all nations
of the earth seemed poised in the eye of a hurricane,
between the winds of World War I and World War II.
The Exposition Internationale would be the final
European enactment of the ritual of Peace and
Progress before the deluge.'
              
from an essay on the exhibition by Arthur Chandler